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Palestinians all but certain to win formal recognition as a state at UN today

With most of the 193 General Assembly member states sympathetic to the Palestinians, the vote is certain to succeed. Several key countries, including France, have recently announced they would support the move to elevate the Palestinians from the status of U.N. observer to nonmember observer state. However, a country’s vote in favor of the status change does not automatically imply its individual recognition of a Palestine state, something that must be done bilaterally.

The Palestinians say they need U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the lands Israel captured in 1967, to be able to resume negotiations with Israel. The non-member observer state status could also open the way for possible war crimes charges against the Jewish state at the International Criminal Court.

In a last-ditch move Wednesday, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State William Burns made a personal appeal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas promising that President Barack Obama would re-engage as a mediator in 2013 if Abbas abandoned the effort to seek statehood. But the Palestinian leader refused, said Abbas aide Saeb Erekat.

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The United Nations was not created to be a majority-rules group of equals. It is full of tiny, backwards, third-world crapholes that can band together and try to pretend their majority of zilch actually means something on the world stage.

Once Pali’s get their state, all those terrorist and militias become the state army? Am I missing something or is this a double edge sword potentially inviting a much more serious responce from Israel when the Palastinian army starts launching missle salvos at them?

Israel is the only entity with the power to grant any special status to areas and peoples within their borders – the land belongs to Israel – they can manage it, and protect it in any way they choose, including removing any “palestinian” squatters whenever they wish, and by whatever means necessary. Period.

I disagree with Netanyahu. All of these baby steps will lead inexorably to the further softening of Israeli public opinion, and eventually to a WB Palestinian state, just as Israel’s desire for “normalcy” earlier empowered the Arabs in Gaza and S.Lebanon. The question is whether the Palestinians then provoke a full scale war, or content themselves by mistreating eachother.

The Palestinians say they need U.N. recognition of a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and east Jerusalem, the lands Israel captured in 1967, to be able to resume negotiations with Israel. The non-member observer state status could also open the way for possible war crimes charges against the Jewish state at the International Criminal Court.

I have no respect for Palestinians or the International Court. This is insane, did Hitler win WWII?

Meanwhile the Syrian government is murdering thousands of its citizens, Egypt slips into becoming a dictatorship and the mad Mullahs of Iran continue to develop a nuclear bomb ………………. And, in school I was told that the Middle East was “The Cradle of Civilization”.